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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL
VOLUME TWENTY-FIVE
GENERAL PRESENTMENTS
OF THE GRAND JURY
MAY TERM 1923
We, the Grand Jury, chosen and
sworn for the May term, 1923, Lee
County Suerior Court, beg lecave to
mae these our Presentments:
We recommend that Leee County
use the Australian Ballott system.
We recommend that the City Of
ficials of Leesburg and Smithville
and the County Officcials co-operate
to secure closer cbservance of the
closed-shop laws for Sundays over
the County. i
It appearing to us that the term
of J. H. Randall, N. P. and Ex.,
Officio J. P. of Smithville district,
will expire before the Fall Term of
the Lee County Superior Court, We
recommend that said J. H. Randall
be re-appointed to this office. ;
We recommend that Court House
grounds be beautified and brought
into better condition.
We recommend that Lee County
employ a competent Certified Public
Acccuntant to audit all County
books and report to the Fall Term
Grand Jury, 1923.
We recommend that the County
Commissioners publish in condenged
form minutes of 21l preceedings for
each quarter immediately after the
Jast meeting of each quarter, and
that all monthly reports be discon
tinued.
We recommend that the County
Cq'{mi_-ni‘s‘sioner's use their influence
in having the unfinished part of the
Dixie Highway, near Smithville,
built by the original survey, past the
New High School Building.
We recommend that the Chairman
of the Board of County Commis
gioners .employ suitable means to
collect all back taxes; and that
where real property is sold for taxes
and bought in by the county com
missioners, that they proceed to
take possession of same and collect
rents on same, and that when said
réal' px_'ppérty in not redeemed with
in. twelve months property be sold.
_W,evreqoinmend that the people of
Lee County co-operate in every way
possible with the Malarial Experts
seht_ to this county by the Rocker
fellow foundation,
We recommend that these pre
sentments be published in the Offi
cial Organ of the county, and that
the legal price be paid therefor.
Road and Bridges. |
We, recommend that bridge be
put over Fox Creek between planta
tions of Usry and Bryant also bridge
over Bay Branch between Bradley
and Bothwell place, mail route.
Main road from Lesburg to DeSoto
on. Brown Hodges place, bannisters
need replacing also road needs re
pairing. We find that bridge be
tween Duncan and Whitsett place
is in ‘bad condition. And recom
mend that road be straightened. at
Rice pond at Clegg place. And rec
ommend that main road b-tween
Philema and Albany be repaired, at
Mr. Akins. :
.We find outer doors of Court
House need repairing, all windows
need to have putty replaced, one
window -in Mr. Powell’s office needs
new _bottom sash, one light is out
in clerk’s office and chairs in Court
room and Grand Jury room need re
pairs. - The basement is very un
sanitary, otherwise the building is
well kept. Veranda floor at jail
needs repairing also walls where
plaster has fallen. The jail is kept
very sanitary. All buildings at
‘County Farm are in good condition
and we find everything very clean.
Pensions.
We find n examination of ension
list that there are thirteen (13)
ersons entitled to ensions. All of
these have been paid one hundred
(100.00) Dollars, each, however,
during the last twelve months four
(4) of that number have died.
Finance Committee :
- Wefind the books of the different
offices fo Lee County correct and
neatly kept. We attach hereto re
ports of the various- county offices
that have been submitted to us.
Convict Camps.
. NO RACE SUICIDE HERE
One Beby Born for Every Ten Geor
' gia Women Between 15 and 45
‘ ATLANTA, July 28.—There is
little danger of race suicide in Geor
gia. For every ten women between
15 and 45 years of age in the State
in 1922 there was one baby born or,
in other words, one woman out of
every ten gave birth to a child dur
ing that year. According to the
1920 census, there were 685,335
women in this class and according
jto the State Bureau of Vital Statis
‘tics records there were 69,615 chil
dren born. The white race shows a
better record in this matter than
‘the negro. There were 385,654
white women and 44,525 white bab
ies born or one baby to each eight
women. There were 25,042 negro
babies born to the 299,681 negro
women in the child bearing age
showing a ratio of one baby for
aach twelve negro women.
WATERMELON CROP FAILURE
The watermelon crop in this sec
tion is a commercial failure this
séason, only a few shiprhgnts have
becen made from this point.
The stock which in the past has
averaged about thirty pounds is run
ning this season less than a twenty
pound average, with considerable
gourd ends and sunburn.
Bl il A eOOT SR
We find the convicts properly fed
and clothed and well cared for: and
the camps in excellent condition.
Justice of Peace Books. ‘
The following Justice of Peace
3oooks were presented for examina
sion J. H. Randall, B. E. Powell,
3. M. Jones Sr. We find these books
aeatly and correctly kept.
The other Justice’s of Peace did
not presentt their books for inspec
tion. ?
Public Records.
We find all public Records neatly
and correctly kept.
Twenty-eight mules, 2 horses, 10
2-horse wagons, 1 1-horse wagon, 1
cook car, 2 sleeping cars, 4 road
machines, 1 3-horse drag, 5 2-horse
irags, 2 tents, 38 hogs, 13 pigs, 1
Best Tractor, 1 Fordson Tractor, 1
Ford Truck, 1 Ford car, 1 Avera
Road Drag, 3 Army Trucks, 9
Wheelers, 1 Gasoline engine, 5 tons
of Hay (more or less), 300 sacks ofl
feed (more or less), 150 bu., corn
175 pounds of meat, 2 cases of soap,
1 case of coffee, 200 gallons of oil
100 gallons of syrup, 25 sacks of
salt, % case soda, 100 bu., sweet
potatoes, 100 acres of oats on Coun
ty Farm, 150 accres of corn on
County Farm, 1 Oat thrash, 13
state men, 20 county men, 15 tons
of guano, 90 bu., field peas, 200
sacks cement (more or less), 2 oat
binders, 100 gallons gasoline. |
To the Honorable Board of Grand
Jurors, I hereby hand my report as
Warden of Lee County. |
| J. D. MCBride,
| Warden of Lee County.
'GEORGIA, Lee County.
To the Honorable County Com
missioners and Grand Jury of Lee
County, Georgia.
Herewith, I beg to submit semi
annual report as Clerk of Lee
Superior City Court of Leesburg,
Lee County, Ga., as to the monies
collected as per receipt hereto at
tached. I have received no monies
arising from City Court since last
report. - :
I, G. A Wallacce, Clerk Lee
Superior Court do herewith certify
that the foregoing is a true and
correct accounting. Given under
my official signature and seal of
this office. This 3rd day of May.
Sworn to and subscribed befcre me
this the Bth day of May, 1923.
H. L. LONG, Ordinary Lee County,
H. L. LONG,
Ordinary Lee County, Ga.
G. A. WALLACE,
C. S. C. Lee County, Ga
(Continued on page two)
Leeshurg, Lee Countvy Ga., Friday AUGUST 3, 1925~
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GEORGIA COUNTY
- OFALL COTTON
ATLANTA, €a., The story of how
+ Georgia county threw of the yoke
»f an “all ¢otten” erop and found in
rop diversiiication a remedy for the
many ills a too faithful adherence to
cotton had placed upon its farmers,
is interestingly told in national pub
lications by Will W, Bruner, editor
of the Washington, Ga. News-Re
porter.
Wilkes county, Georgia, for more
than one hundred years had been
growing cotton to the exclusion of
‘almost all other crops. The result
was that the farmers of Wilkes
county prospered only when cotton
was high in price and were under a
burden of debt when the staple be
came unprofitable.
Mr. Bruner, in his article, tells
how the Kiwanis club of Washing
ton, the county seat of Wilkes, with
the co-operation of the business men
and bankers of the town and the
progressive farmers of the county,
‘naugurated a program of develop
ment for tae county which has Lad
amazing results.
The Kiwanians adopted the slo-%
zan: ‘““Co-operation, square deal,
good will, the cow, the hog, the hen;
1 little cotton now and then.” A
better slogan, in the opinion of
state agriculturists, could hardly
e devised. With the hearty sup
sort of business interests and farm
ng interests, the Kiwanis club start
ad to carry out its program for di
versification.
Dairying has been introduced, a
:reamery in under construction,
sure-bred eggs have been purchased
50 take the place of ordinary kind
‘or settings and a ten-thousand egg
iatchery in under construction. The
sounty had been producing. pure
bred hogs for a number of years and
this industry has been enlarged.
Crops suitable to the land have been
slanted ot take the place of so much
cotton, and Wilkes county is seeing
daylight ahead and financial free
dom for its farmers is well in sight.
As agriculturists here point out,
1 splendid example is being set by
;he Georgia county for other coun
sies in the South. What is possible
‘'n one Georgia county is possible in
almost any county in other southern
states. All that is needed is, far
mer experts say, for some organiza
tion with the determination of the
Washington, Ga. Kiwanis club to
start the movement.
Southern farmers are willing,
Georgia agriculturists claim, to
plant less cotton if they can be
shown that it will pay them better
to produce other crops, fo add dairy
ing and hog raising and produce
cotton only as a part of their farm
ing activity.
FARMERS LOSE BILLIONS _BY
DECLINE IN PRICES SINCE
1921. e
Comparison of prices received by
farmers for their several principal
products in the summer of 1921
with the returns they are getting
now shows that in every instance
there has been a heavy decline—
amounting in the aggregate to bil
lions of dollars to the agricultural
producers of the country.
Wheat is now selling for about
$1 a bushel. In 1920 the maximum
price was $3 a bushel. Corn brought
almost $2 a bushel at the “peak’” of
prices in 1920. That is more than a
dollar above the present price of
corn. In 1919 the highest price for
barley was $1.50 a bushel, as
against 52 or 53 cents a bushel now.
QOats reached a maximum of $1.15
a bushel in 1920, and is now selling
for about 43 cents a bushel. Pota
toes have fallen from about $4.50
a bushel to less than $l. e
‘ Hog have declined in value an
average of $l5 a hundred pounds
below the maximum price the far
lmers got for them in 1919, the
“‘peak.” At that time the price at
Chicago was $22.25 a hundreds
pounds. The price now is about $7
a hundred pounds. |
PEANUT CO-OP. HAS
lOVER 5,200 MEMBERS
Marketing Organization will Con
] trol Over Two-Thirds of Crop.
| ALBANY, Ga, July 30.—With
the sign-up campaign of the Geor
|y;lu Peanut Growers Co-operative
Association about completed, it is
now evident that this new co-opera
tive marketing ovganiation will con
trol the yield of more than 100,000
acres of the 152,000 acres estimated
as the total crop of the state by the
lU. S. Bureau of Agricultural Econo
‘mics, The number of members is
already in excess of 5,200, and the
total will probably be 6.000 by har
vest season.
- Through the county organizations
and district and community locals
now being set up in different parts
of the state, it is estimated that a
large number of additional acres of
peanuts will be pledged to the new
co-op. and that the membership will
be considerably increased. The lo
cals will preserve contact between
the members and the association.
New and larger headquarters for
the association have been opened in
the David Brown building on North
Washington street in Albany, im
mediately in front of the St. Nich
olas Hotel.
Heads of the different depart
ments have been selected as follows:
Colonel Robert E. L. Spence, gen
ieral manager; John H. Mock, direc
tor of field service; J. J. Watson,
production manager, and Richard
McCarthy, office manager and sec
retary. Col. Spence will have gen
cral supervision of all departments.
Mr. Mock will have charge of the
locals and preserving contact be
tween the members and the assopia—
tion, as well as the matter of giving
public information about the asso
c¢iation and advising- members as to
different plans of the association.
Mr. Watson will have charge of the
warehousing, shipping and grading
end of the business, together with a
participation in the sales and ad
vertising end. Mr. McCarthy, who
comes from the Prune and Apri
2ot Growers Association of Cali
fornia, will have general charge of
the office work and accounting. M.
Watson’s department is already
busy lining up warehouse facilities
for handling this year’s peanut
crop..
HALTING AUTOMOBILES
WITHOUT WARRANT IS
DEPLORED BY JUDGE
LAGRANGE, Ga., July 31,—
Troup superior court convened
Monday for the July term, with
Judge C. E. Roop presiding. The
grand jury organized by electing
C. L. Smith, of LaGrange, foreman.
Judge Roop delivered an able
charge to the jury, touching wupon
many questions. He said the schools
and colleges were giving too much
time and money to athletics, clubs,
etc., and not enough to the funda
mentals upon which the government
was founded, chief among which is
the constitution of the Unifed
States. He said that he thought all
the schools should require the stu
dents to make a study of the insti"u
ment, and that legislation should be
passed requiring this to be done.
He referred to the recent incident
at West Point in which one dry
agent was killed and another was
wounded when they fired upon an
automobile occupied by some young
men of West Point returning from
church. Judge Roop said that there
might possibly be some circum
fstances under which officers would
have = right to intercept an auto
‘mobile without a search warrant but
this right should be exercised with
igreat caution. He said the officers
‘had no right to violate one law in
\trying to enforce another; that the
citizens of the state had rights guar
anteed them by the constitutions of
the state and of the United States.
even if they were not always pro
tected in the right.
The people of the county and sur
rounding country are watching with
interest what action the grand jury
will take in the West Point incident.
PRESIDENT HARDING
PASSES AWAY
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 2—Pres
ident Harding died instantly and
withow warning tonight at 7:30
o’clock.
At 7:456 p. m. it was announced
that an official bulletin would be is
sued within a few minutes.
Death came to the Chief Execu
tive while he was conversing 'with
members of his family and accord
ing to official statement issued by
physicians, was apparently due to
some brain evolvement, probably an
apoplexy.
The end came so suddenly that
the members of the official party
could not be called. It came after
a day which had been described by
Brigadier General Sawyer, the Pres
ident’s personal physician, as the
most satisfactory day the President
had had since his illness began. The
physicians in their formal announce
ment of the end said that “during
the day he had been free from dis
comfort and there was every justi
fication for anticipating 'a prompt
recovery.
The first indication that a change |
)had occur.ed in the condition of Mr.
‘Harding came shortly after 7 o’clock
when Mrs. Harding personally open
ed the door of the sick room and
called to those in the corridors to
“find Doctor Boone and the others
quick.”
At that time Mrs. Harding was
understood to have been reading to
the President, sitting at his bed
side with the evening papers and
messages of sympathy which had
been received during the day.
The death of the nation’s Chief
Executive was announced in these
words: “The President died ' in
stantaneously and without warning
and while coversing with members
of his family at 7:30 p. m. Death
was apparently due to some brain
envolvement, probably apoplexy.”
“During the day he had been free
from discomfort and there was
every justification for anticipating
a prompt recovery.
(Signed) “C. E. Sawyer, M. D.,
Ray Layman Wilbur, M. D., C. M.
Cooper, M. D., J. T. Boone, M. D.,
Hubert Works, M. D. August 2,
1923 7:30 p. m.
In a second official statement is
sued at 8:02 p. m., the statement
was made that death had been caus
ed by a stroke of apoplexy. ‘
The story of the President’s tragic
Have You Got the Pass Word?
We do not konw whether you belong to any of the various and
sundry secret organizations or not, but you are no doubt a‘.wn'o that
before entering any of these sanctums you have got to be in pos
session of the “pass word.” Not only are you required to give the
pass word to some duly authorized officer, but you are obligatorily
bound to give it to no one wfio is not duly qualified to receive it.
We want to give you the pass word to one of the most desired
institutions the world knows today. The pass word consists of a pass
book to this bank, where the rank and file to which you may ascend
is governed by your own efforts and the help of this institution,
There are many degrees you may take in the ranks through
which you may travel in banking channels, but the highest degree is
independence. iR : : G
Come to us and let us give you the pass book._. our first deposit
constitutes the “first dog;ee," then it is up to you as to how many
you may take and the rank you may attain in the pinnacle of al;-
solute indepemdence. ;< * R bt A
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BANK OF LEESBURG,
G.A.NESBIT, PRESIDENT ~ O.W.STATHAM, VICE-PRESIDENT
: T. C. THARP, CASHIER, :
SHIP SIX CARS POTATOES
LYONS, Ga., AUG. I.—The big
steam Jersey sweet potato total
shipment have reached the six-car
point now and the season is over for
this point. These six cars were pro
duced on about sixty-five acres and
when all the returns are in will total
about $7,600 or better than $lOO
per acre. The highest yield was
made by W. L. Duncan, who dug
137 bushels, or fifty barrels, off of
one acre.
G. E. Corley received a check for
his shipment from two and one-half
acres last Saturday and it totaled
$312 net.
Mr. Duncan’s first car of 229 bar
rels returned him $1,600 and was
produced on five and three-fourths
acres. This was the highest average
acreage yield. The lowest price re
2eived for number one potatoes was
$8 per barrel on one car. The oth
ers ran from $9 teslo per barrel.
Number two's ran from the lowest
lot, which sold for $3 to the other
‘which sold from $5.50 to $6.50 per
barrel.
end was told in this way: “The Pres
ident died at 7:30 p. m, Mrs. Hard
ing and the two nurses, Miss Ruth
Powderly and Miss Sue Dausser,
were in the room at the time.
Mrs. Harding was reading to the
President when wutterly without
warning a slight shudder passed
through his frame, he collapsed, and
all recognized that the end had
come. A stroke of apoplexy was the
cause of death.
“Within a few minutes all of the
President’s official party had been
summoned.” ; .
Secretary, Hoover was the first of
the four members of the President’s
Cabinet, who are in San Francisco,
to learn the sad news. He went into
the room at once and in a few min
utes came out obviously deeply dis
tressed and in a low voice said to
newspaper men, most of whom did
not now of the hurried call almost
half an hour previously:
“Boys. I can’t tell you a thing.”
A third official statement, issued
at 8:15 p. m. announced that Vice
President Calvin Coolidge, the next
man who occupies the first position
in he United States Government,
had been notified of President Hard
ing’s death.
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